Judge Hears Claims of Boston Tax Retaliation

Attorneys for a downtown Boston office landlord and the city of Boston sparred over whether the court system should decide if the Assessing Department engaged in alleged systematic inflation of commercial property valuations.

Caffe Nero Wins Landmark Back Bay Eviction Case

The pandemic caused the permanent closure of Caffe Nero’s Newbury Street location, but some struggling retailers may take encouragement from a Suffolk Superior Court ruling that the coffeehouse was improperly evicted by its Back Bay landlord.

Uber to Pay $148M in National Data Breach Settlement

Attorney General Maura Healey announced a $148 million national settlement with Uber Wednesday over the company’s failure to promptly report a 2016 data breach that compromised the names, email addresses and cell phone numbers of 57 million users and the driver’s licenses of 600,000 drivers.